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High Flying Bird

During an NBA lockout, a sports agent, Dean, presents his rookie client, Erick Scott, with an intriguing and controversial business opportunity.

6.2/10

91%

Amateur

14-year-old basketball phenom Terron Forte has to navigate the under-the-table world of amateur athletics when he is recruited to an elite NCAA prep school.

5.9/10

60%

Hustle

After discovering a once-in-a-lifetime player with a rocky past abroad, a down on his luck basketball scout takes it upon himself to bring the phenom to the States without his team's approval. Against the odds, they have one final shot to prove they have what it takes to make it in the NBA.

7.3/10

93%

18,398

He Got Game

Movie | United States | 05/01/1998 | Drama | Basketball

A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.

6.9/10

80%

The Way Back

Movie | United States | 03/05/2020 | Drama | Basketball

A former basketball all-star, who has lost his wife and family foundation in a struggle with addiction attempts to regain his soul and salvation by becoming the coach of a disparate ethnically mixed high school basketball team at his alma mater.

6.7/10

84%

10,906

Coach Carter

Movie | United States | 01/14/2005 | Drama | Basketball

Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.

7.3/10

64%

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Rez Ball

After losing their star player, a high school basketball team rich in Native American heritage must bounce back to keep their championship dreams alive.

6.3/10

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Above the Rim

Movie | United States | 03/23/1994 | Drama | Basketball

6.6/10

52%

Full-Court Miracle

Movie | United States | 11/21/2003 | Drama | Basketball

Full-Court Miracle is a 2003 Disney Channel Original Movie. It premiered on November 23, 2003. Inspired by the true story of University of Virginia basketball star Lamont Carr, the film centers on a group of young Jewish basketball players who search for a coach to help them out of a slump. The main character Alex Schlotsky is inspired by the true story of Alex Barbag and Chad Korpeck.

5.7/10

Hoosiers

Movie | United States | 11/14/1986 | Drama | Basketball

High school basketball is king in small-town Indiana, and the 1954 Hickory Huskers are all hope and no talent. But their new coach -- abrasive, unlikable Norman Dale -- whips the team into shape ... while also inciting controversy.

7.6/10

91%

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Shooting Stars

The inspiring origin story of a basketball superhero, revealing how LeBron James and his childhood friends become the #1 high school team in the country, launching James's breathtaking career as a four-time NBA Champion, two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and the NBA's all-time leading scorer.

6.5/10

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Boogie

Movie | United States | 03/05/2021 | Drama | Basketball

Alfred “Boogie” Chin is a basketball phenom living in Queens, New York, who dreams of one day playing in the NBA. While his parents pressure him to focus on earning a scholarship to an elite college, Boogie must find a way to navigate a new girlfriend, high school, on-court rivals and the burden of expectation.

5.2/10

42%

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Love & Basketball

Movie | United States | 04/21/2000 | Drama | Basketball

A young African-American couple navigates the tricky paths of romance and athletics in this drama. Quincy McCall (Omar Epps) and Monica Wright (Sanaa Lathan) grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. They've followed the game all their lives and have no small amount of talent on the court. As Quincy and Monica struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league professional ball.

7.2/10

An American Citizen

Movie | Israel | 01/01/1992 | Drama | Basketball

An American professional athlete and an Israeli sportswriter bond over Basketball.

6.4/10

You Dont Know Jack

Angel of mercy… or murderous “Doctor Death”? Jack Kervorkian is one of the most polarizing figures in modern American history, a man whose passionate belief that people have the right to die has brought him both praise and vilification. Oscar®- and Emmy®-winning actor Al Pacino brings “Dr. Death” to life in an all-new HBO Films presentation: You Don’t Know Jack, directed by Oscar®-winner Barry Levinson.

7.6/10

83%

Strip Search

Movie | United States | 04/27/2004 | HBO | Drama | 11 09

Strip Search follows several parallel stories examining personal freedoms vs. national security in the aftermath of 9/11; two main subplots involve an American woman detained in China and an Arab man detained in New York City.

6.2/10

The Laramie Project

\The Laramie Project\ is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard. To create the stage version of \The Laramie Project,\ the eight-member New York-based Tectonic Theatre Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, recording hours of interviews with the town's citizens over a two-year period. The film adaptation dramatizes the troupe's visit, using the actual words from the transcripts to create a portrait of a town forced to confront itself.

7.1/10

92%

The Fever

Tells the story of a woman who gets involved in politics with no previous contact with world events.

5.7/10

Monster

Movie | United States | 11/16/2003 | Drama | Serial killer

Aileen Wuornos is an emotionally scarred highway hooker who shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her and ultimately becomes America's first female serial killer. The film, based on a true story, centers more on the surrounding circumstances than on the murders.

7.3/10

132

The Man Who Wasn't There

Movie | United States | 05/13/2001 | Drama | Crime Drama

A tale of passion, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity presents him with a chance to change it.

7.5/10

81%

The Lincoln Lawyer

Movie | United States | 03/18/2011 | Drama | Lawyers

A lawyer conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills.

7.3/10

83%

638

Hotel Rwanda

Movie | United States | 12/22/2004 | Drama | Racism

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.

8.2/10

91%

Michael Clayton

Movie | United States | 10/12/2007 | Drama | Lawyers

A law firm brings in its \fixer\ to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.

7.2/10

91%

Thank You for Smoking

Movie | United States | 09/05/2005 | Drama | Satira

The chief spokesperson and lobbyist Nick Naylor is the Vice-President of the Academy of Tobacco Studies. He is talented in speaking and spins argument to defend the cigarette industry in the most difficult situations. His best friends are Polly Bailey that works in the Moderation Council in alcohol business, and Bobby Jay Bliss of the gun business own advisory group SAFETY. They frequently meet each other in a bar and they self-entitle the Mod Squad a.k.a. Merchants of Death, disputing which industry has killed more people. Nick's greatest enemy is Vermont's Senator Ortolan Finistirre, who defends in the Senate the use a skull and crossed bones in the cigarette packs. Nick's son Joey Naylor lives with his mother, and has the chance to know his father in a business trip. When the ambitious reporter Heather Holloway betrays Nick disclosing confidences he had in bed with her, his life turns upside-down. But Nick is good in what he does for the mortgage.

7.6/10

86%

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